Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935176AbYCSUtz (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:49:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753668AbYCSTqF (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:46:05 -0400 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.187]:63347 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755506AbYCSTqC (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:46:02 -0400 Message-ID: <7783925d0803181914n16b0a221l179cc350bc2f3f89@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:44:33 +0530 From: "Rick Brown" To: "Linux Kernel" Subject: preempt_disable() question MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 425 Lines: 15 Hi, I've asked this on kernel newbies before, but not enough responses. Does preempt_disable() disable preemption on all the processors, or just the local processor? TIA, Rick -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/